The newest buzzphrase in the Social Security world is ‘Intergenerational Equity’. It is indeed the theme of the new movie IOUSA (to whose webpage I link) which itself is pretty…

…physicians what they already k new, Depakote was a very valuable medication for “off-label” (unapproved uses). In the irony department, prescribing and administering Depakote for off-label uses is legal, and…

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

Real Reasons Bankers Don’t Like Basel’s Rules: Clive Crook – Bloomberg. Why bankers’ whining about higher equity requirements is just that: A much-cited paper by Stanford’s Anat Admati and colleagues…

…real estate indexed bonds. Good idea. Not profitable. One financial innovation which caused trouble is the home equity loan. This enabled people to risk foreclosure. It contributed to the current…

…lower. That number strikes me as plausibly large enough to raise treasury yields and increase equity prices so much that the equity premium could be significantly diminished. Doesn’t it? Kash…

…value of equity falls, which raises the net foreign asset position of those countries that are net issuers of equity, while lowering it for those that hold equity. In addition,…

…equity to build additional capital and thus equity needs to happen at every level thought Professor Kleinbard is addressing national spending. Here is Professor Kleinbard on Cspan. I list after…

by Peter Dorman (originally published at Econospeak) Another Year of Equity at Evergreen The following email was forwarded to me and many other Evergreen faculty: On [date deleted], students, staff…

…homeowner equity: CoreLogic: US Homeowners See Equity Gains Continue to Climb, but at a Slower Pace in Q2 The report shows that U.S. homeowners with mortgages (which account for roughly 62%…